Ryan York has been teaching Recording for several years now.

He also teaches at The Webb School.

He is the Director of YEAH!.

He is very excited to see Murfreesboro get a year-round after-school arts facility.

He graduated with a degree in Recording from MTSU.

Pat Blankenship is an attorney, a small business owner, a law office administrator, and an arts advocate. She served on the Board of Directors for and as President of Murfreesboro Little Theatre from 1994-1996, and she has worked on-stage and back-stage with both children and adults in numerous theatrical and musical productions at the Cannon County Arts Center. She graduated from the University Of Tennessee College Of Law in 1977 and has practiced law in Murfreesboro, Tennessee since 1981. She serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Youth Empowerment through Arts & Humanities, Inc. (YEAH!)l

Nicole Tekulve: Summer Programming Co-Director. Nicole Tekulve graduated from MTSU in 2005 with a BA in History and is currently working on completing a Masters in Library Science with a concentration in Young Adult Literature. She has been involved with the Southern Girls Rock & Roll Camp since 2005 and currently serves as the co-director of Summer Programming for YEAH.

Katie Blankenship, Summer Programming Co-Director, has an MA in Humanities and Nonprofit Art Administration from New York University and a BA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.   She has recently relocated back to Murfreesboro, her home town, to pursue all things YEAH!  Her work with Rock Camps extends from Middle Tennessee to Brooklyn, NY, where she also plays and tours with her band The Havens.